From 1f726c876027894c78c1a18fe2f2de9eb04c288c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 12:01:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Recognize arrays as constant links

---
 src/ioc/dbStatic/dbStaticLib.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/ioc/dbStatic/dbStaticLib.c b/src/ioc/dbStatic/dbStaticLib.c
index db7a6a3f5..c718dacab 100644
--- a/src/ioc/dbStatic/dbStaticLib.c
+++ b/src/ioc/dbStatic/dbStaticLib.c
@@ -2330,6 +2330,12 @@ long dbParseLink(const char *str, short ftype, dbLinkInfo *pinfo)
         return 0;
     }
 
+    /* Link may be an array constant */
+    if (pstr[0] == '[' && pstr[len-1] == ']' && strchr(pstr, ',')) {
+        pinfo->ltype = CONSTANT;
+        return 0;
+    }
+
     pinfo->ltype = PV_LINK;
     pstr = strchr(pstr, ' '); /* find start of link modifiers (can't be seperated by tabs) */
     if (pstr) {